(8:1-2) God shows Amos a basket of summer fruit and tells him that the end has come.
(8:1) "God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit."
(8:2a) "He said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit."
(8:2b) "Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will
not again pass by them any more."
(8:3) "The songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD:
there shall be many dead bodies in every place."
(8:7) "The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob."
(8:8-9)
(8:9) "Shall not the land tremble for this?" (Earthquakes are a punishment from God.)
(8:9) "I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day."
(8:10) "I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into
lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon
every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end
thereof as a bitter day."
(8:11-12) "The days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in
the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the
words of the LORD. They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not
find it." (Someday people will actually want to read the Bible.)
(8:13-14)
(8:13) "In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst."
(8:14) "They shall fall, and never rise up again."
8:1
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer
fruit.
8:2
And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit.
Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will
not again pass by them any more.
8:3
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord
GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them
forth with silence.
8:4
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land
to fail,
8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the
sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel
great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
8:6
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
8:7The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget
any of their works.
8:8Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth
therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out
and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
8:9
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will
cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear
day:
8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into
lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon
every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end
thereof as a bitter day.
8:11
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in
the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the
words of the LORD:
8:12
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the
east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not
find it.
8:13In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
8:14
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth;
and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up
again.
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